Thursday, May 12, 2016

Turkish
Delight:
Turkey's tyrant-in-waiting Recip Erdogan took time of from
blackmailing
Europe to assure the world that the presidential system he
intends to install “won't be the same as that of the US
– nor will it have anything in common with the dictatorships of
Africa.” He's sure
that once he becomes dictator for life by universal acclimation
everyone will be happy, happy, happy. Well, almost
everyone. Or
else.

Graduation
Advice:
“The real
secrets of creating a fortune are not genius, leadership, risking
your own money, or lots of hard work. They’re chutzpah, who you
know, and luck. And the greatest of these is plain old luck. Oh boy,
is it luck.” Nike's Phil Knight.

Patriotism:
Belgian-owned Budwiser is renaming its beer “America” and plans
to adorn the cans with pictures of the Statue of Liberty and
Washington Monument and phrases from the Pledge of Allegiance, lyrics
from The Star Spangled Banner and America The Beautiful. I don't buy
Bud and am going to make a conscious effort to dedicate my non-beer
buying to these folks from
now on.

Bob
And Weave:
After insisting that the country had done all it could to make
healthcare available and affordable, and that the fight for a
universal single-payer system had already been lost, Hillary now
wants to change the rules so that people 50 or 55 and up could “buy
in” to Medicare – sort of Medicare For More. Not that this is in
any way similar to Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All. Ms. Clinton was
pretty vague about eligibility and costs and who would foot the bill
and how much more insurance companies would drain
from the Federal government. But, hey, she cares...

Hurdles:
Before the Clinton team can comfortably tuck the election away, they
will have to deal with the restive Sanders voters - half of whom, at
least in West Virginia, say they would vote for Trump in the Fall if
Clinton is the candidate.

Secret
Votes:
A lot of Trump support is not reflected in the polls because, quite
simply, a lot of people who are going to end up voting for him are
ashamed to admit it. For example, “A
third of those who voted in West Virginia’s Democratic primary say
they plan to back Trump in November. Sanders won those voters by a
wide margin”.

2 comments:

Voting in the November election is registering your approval of the choices you've been, er, granted. Boycotting the election demonstrates you will not accept the 'lesser of two evils', [especially these two.]

There are NO democrats running, Democrats were driven out of the process by money decades ago. Those wearing the D these days have sworn fealty to the LLC model.

Since we have no way to register our displeasure with this disasterous set of circumstances, we can't.

We could 'protest' the conventions but all that will do is get your head busted and your name placed on a 'watch list'!

As CKM suggested yesterday...although this idea is a bit to the left of starting our own 'party' [that the media would simply ignore] is to start a new 'union'...but this wouldn't be a traditional union, it would be like the original unions, because they didn't care what 'the president' declared or how some judge ruled.

More importantly it would be an 'all inclusive' union, with the only 'qualifications' for membership being that you are human and can fog a mirror.

It is the only way the, er, 'underclasses' can confront the Billionaire Club and their bought and paid for 'Justice system'.

So when November comes and the two odious choices are presented, we would have (nominally) a legal footing to stand on when the general strike was declared.

Remember, the original revolution was fought over 'taxation without representation'...well, can you identify WHO represents YOU in the media circus we call politics?

We all know who our reps are but it's a darn good thing for them that we can't fire them!

We need change and change won't happen by itself nor is anyone coming to rescue us so...you certainly don't need me to finish that one, do you?

Our Motto

Keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.